The Critic

The Critic is Britain's new highbrow monthly current affairs magazine for politics, art and literature. Dedicated to rigorous content, first rate writing and unafraid to ask the questions others won't.

LEGACY OF FAILURE

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The diversity trap • Stonewall’s diktats create a workplace culture that scares and silences sensible people and empowers witchfinders and grievance-mongers

Letters • Write to The Critic by email at letters@thecritic.co.uk including your address and telephone number

First lady of the law • The new Lord Chief Justice inherits a role with a rich and varied history

Woman About Town • LISA HILTON MOSTRA DEL CINEMA

NOVA’S DIARY

Liz Truss: what if …? • Rohan Watt offers an insider’s guide to a premiership cut short

Hellmann’s, humbug and chutzpah • Three cheers for hypocrisy in the Unilever boardroom

How to fix Brexit • A flawed book by a Remainer asks some of the right questions and even suggests …

ABUSED BY THE IRA, BETRAYED BY BRITAIN • A traumatised victim of alleged IRA sex abuse was interrogated in secret by republicans, let down by a botched prosecution and smeared in the pages of the Guardian

EVERYDAY LIES WITH THEODORE DALRYMPLE

Vote against giving a Voice to racism • Tim Smith says that a proposed change to the Australian constitution will enshrine inequality in Parliament

Ban this vile “Hate” Parade

Pierre Poilievre • The Conservative Party leader’s mantra “Canada is broken” resonates with voters appalled by the gap between their country’s promise and grim reality

Block votes & nutters • Stephen Pollard recalls a time when the Labour conference really mattered, before it became a stage-managed platform for social media hits and soundbites

The making of Sunak • Alexander Larman says the P.M. has the brittle self-confidence of a true Wykehamist

Clothes maketh the nation • How servants of the Crown dress is not trivial. It reflects Britain’s decline

KEIR’S WOMAN PROBLEM • Labour’s dishonest and weak handling of “the trans issue” hardly instils confidence that it will stand firm against sex denial extremists, says Victoria Smith

LABOUR’S BLUES • Sebastian Milbank says Leftish economics allied to moderate social conservatism offers a compelling route to power for Sir Keir Starmer

In defence of the Dark Ages • Samuel Rubinstein argues the early medieval period really was “dark” both in terms of the historical record and in contrast to the sophistication of Rome

Fathers of the Republic • Daniel Johnson welcomes a long overdue reassessment of the whiskered High Victorian statesmen whose fervent but nuanced nationalism did so much to forge modern Ireland

Mairead McSweeney “Irish” novelist

The same old soap opera • The Bank of England will continue to ignore the real lessons of boom and bust

Why do we persist with opera? • Dependent on state subsidies, artistically ossified and only a few go to see it. Why do we persist with Opera, asks Lola Salem

HALF A CENTURY OF THE WORLD AT WAR • It was then the most expensive documentary ever made and, many think, the greatest. On its fiftieth anniversary, Andrea Valentino explores the origins of a celebrated TV landmark

Adam Dant on …

STUDIO • Colin Watson and the lost art of figurative painting

A sunny depiction of dark times • A.N. Wilson is a writer and columnist and the author of a number of books of popular history

Sparkling sweep of the turbulent south

The layers of Ancient Rome

Ancient wisdom, modern foolishness

Searching for sense amid chaos

Putin’s assault on Russia’s memory

Is the age of the Secret Service...